Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-02


prophecy wss in Captain Paddock when
he drew that map, land yesterday, as Pres.
ldent of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
Railway Company, he rode in one of the
coaches over the solid steel rails of the last
road of the ten he had projected. All
of the others have been built and surely
the modest railroad prophet of 1873 must
have felt thrill of pride as he viewed
the beautiful landscape from the window
of q coach travelling at the rate of twenty
three miles an hour over the last of the
ten roads he had mapped out when peO-
pie laughed at him. CAPTAIN Paddock
named his roads as follows: The Texas
and Pacific (same route IS shown above)
Fort Worth and Denver Gas built)
| TransContinental Division of the Texas
and Pacific Gas shown above), Red
River and Rio Grande north, NOW the
Missouri Pacific to Denison) Fort Worth
and Gulf, north, (nOw the AtchisOn- Gulf
Fort Worth, Corsicana and Beaumont,
NOW the Fort Worth and New
Orleans and Texas CentraD, Fort
Worth and Gulf, south, NOW the Mis-
souri, Pacific, Red River and Rio Grande,
south, now the Gulf, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fee and last
the Fort Worth, Granbury and South
western, NOW the Fort Worth and Rio
! Grande). Beneath this chart or map
hung portrait of President Paddock,
taken about the time he drew his map
1t shows q younger man but not
as handsome a man as the captain of the
present day. All this decorating had
been done by Conductor Joe SCully,
Engineer NJ. Hughes and the rest Of the
train crew. The coaches were soon filed
/ by the invited ones, and the sumptuous-
ness of the uphOlstenng and fittings were
commented on by all. The coaches are
of the most modern build, with all late
/ improvements, and are painted ex-
aCtly like the coaches On
/ the famous Pennsylvania Central.
! The hour of 10 had arrived and Conduc-
( tor Scully shouted "AIl aboard for Gran
buTy!" and in few seconds the train
was flying over the road. The personnel
of the officers of the road and trains crew
present yesterday is: President B. B.
/ Paddock, Secretary Z. 7. Hollis, Director
! WI Lake, Master Mechsnic'Harry Nickel
/ sey, Conductor Joe SculIy, Engineer M.
Hughes, Fireman Sommers Harper,
Brakemen James Baker and VIM. Good
! enOw, POrters Shadrach Casey & SWa-
sey's famous COlored COlossus) and
BsndY Rowan, also gentleman of
/ color. The committee Of arrangements
| had seen to the providing of the commits
sarv, and it was all that could be desired.
II nine minutes ScullyviIia was reached,
and the little city gracefully saluted. The
yards here were filled full of bridge
timbeTs, steel rails, the great iron bridge
for the BrazOs at Granbury, ties, spikes,
etc, whilel several score of Fort Worth
and Rio Grande cars heavily loaded
stood on the side-tracks ready
to be taken to the front. While none Of
the road has been ballasted as yet, and
only eighteen miles surfaced, the track
was remarkably smooth, showing the
contractors to have done good work. The
road passes through as rich and beautiful
a country as there is in the American
Union. The ground showed that fine
rains had fallen in the last few
days. Wheat and oats looked
fine, and corn and cotton were
showing themselves, while the frisky cat
tie were getting so fat they felt inclined
to rush to the slaughter by getting in
front OF the locomotive. In one hour
from the time of leaving the Union depot
the train pulled into Johnson county and
stopped 500 yards from the end of the
ITdChf LW6uLy ulllSS LnS
house at Fort Worth and sixteen miles
from the courthouse at Granbury. Here
q party from Granbury was found wait
ing the arrival of the train. They hailed
it with Joy and Granburyites and Fort
WORTHLESS were soon in happy utilization.
The Granbury excursionists were: J. L.
Thrash and wife, H. J. Kerr and wife,
Sid Thrash and wife, Miss Josie Mutt,
Duke, Mss SaIlie Dennis and
Messrs. J. A. Whisenhunt, j. T.
Wright, Eugene Thrash, S. G. Huzza,
R. L. King and Mr.. Walcott, formerly of
Fort Worth, now with the company at
Granbury. The horses were abandoned
and the entire party boarded the train and
were taken back to beautiful grove on
Mustang creek, which is q clear stream
fed by numerous springs. Here
a stay Of an hour or two was
made when the train pulled back
to the end of the track to return the
Granbury people to their carriages.
GOod-byes were said, haudkerchiefs and
hats waved and tie Granbury people
went home well assured that inside of
thirty days the IRON horse will be snorting
on the banks Of the BrazOs. The return
trip was made in one hour and seven
inmates. The occasion was a de-
lightful one and all returned more
than pleased with the road, its
officers, the people of Granbury and the
day. This morning $50 men continue the |
work of track laying, and will put down
over mile day. By Saturday night |
the track will be less than ten miles from
Granbury. President Paddock expressed |
regret that party of Cleburue people |
who started for the end of the track |
missed, as did several Grsnbury people.
On to Granbury.
Mortgage Bond Filed.